Mark W. Hannaford

Mark Warren Hannaford ( born February 7, 1925 in Woodrow, Lincoln County, Colorado, † June 2, 1985 in Lakewood, California ) was an American politician. Between 1975 and 1979 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Hannaford attended the public schools in Anderson (Indiana). During the Second World War, he served 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war he studied until 1950, and then again after an interruption until 1956 at Ball State University in Muncie. In the years 1961 and 1962 he was still a student at Yale University. From 1966 to 1975 he taught political science at Long Beach City College in California. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1966 to 1974 he was councilor in Lakewood; in this city, he served in the years 1968-1970 and 1972-1974 as mayor. Between 1966 and 1974, Hannaford also belonged to the State Board of his party. In August 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated at the Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

In the congressional elections of 1974, Hannaford was the 34th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard T. Hanna on January 3, 1975. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1979 two legislative sessions. In 1978 he was defeated by Republican Dan Lungren; Two years later, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for his return to the Congress. Then Hannaford is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 2 June 1985 in Lakewood.